linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/20] mm: Add msharefs filesystem

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Message-ID: <403f1597-05a9-454e-900c-48340b90880c@oracle.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2025 09:01:50 -0800
From: Anthony Yznaga <anthony.yznaga@...cle.com>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@...radead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/20] mm: Add msharefs filesystem


On 1/25/25 1:10 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 25, 2025 at 12:05:47PM -0800, Anthony Yznaga wrote:
>> On 1/24/25 7:13 PM, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Just nits:
>>>
>>>
>>> On 1/24/25 3:54 PM, Anthony Yznaga wrote:
>>>> diff --git a/mm/Kconfig b/mm/Kconfig
>>>> index 1b501db06417..ba3dbe31f86a 100644
>>>> --- a/mm/Kconfig
>>>> +++ b/mm/Kconfig
>>>> @@ -1358,6 +1358,15 @@ config PT_RECLAIM
>>>>    	  Note: now only empty user PTE page table pages will be reclaimed.
>>>> +config MSHARE
>>>> +	bool "Mshare"
>>>> +	depends on MMU
>>>> +	help
>>>> +	  Enable msharefs: A ram-based filesystem that allows multiple
>>> 	                     RAM-based
> But it's not a ram-based filesystem.  It's a pseudo-filesystem like
> procfs.  It doesn't have any memory of its own.

Right. I'll clear that up.


Anthony